What went on so i could ask more intelligent questions on the battlefield. The other book i just read is called the last cowboys a Pioneer Family in the new west and it is an interesting book. I like books that are sometimes not fiction but read like fiction and the last cowboys a Pioneer Family in the new west is about a rancher family in utah, the changes, urbanization in the area now and make extra money on the rodeo circuit. It is a real family book and really interesting. The other book i am reading on the plane or here and there so i have these things, a bread pull her book and that is devil not spy type deal that is very entertaining. Bread for was guest on our in depth fiction series. You can which that on booktv. Org. I will do that. I have read a bunch of his books. It is really interesting because a lot of that is cia nature, spy credit stuff. You are around some of that, the Senate Things i dealt with had to do peripherally. It is interesting to see different agencies invol
President nixon, Lieutenant Colonel marine corps vietnam veteran living in the white house, return with president nixon to san clemente. Retired from the marines and when we had a gift without we would name it the jack sears. When we have distinguished professional of arms we would remind people that jack served and continues to serve it was so glad so many of you are here. If youre a veteran or a member of active duty will you stand and allow us to thank you . [applause] now our guest is admiral james stavridis, graduate from United Statesra Naval Academy in 1976. Hehe went on for 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way including as Combatant Commander of u. S. Central command excuse me, seven command from 20062009 and, of course, as nato ally supreme commander. He earned his phd as well and masters of arts from the Fletcher School of law and diplomacy which he subsequently went on to lead as dean after his retirement from the navy. Admiral stavridis is the author
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With support from Cable Partners this weekend, we traveled to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour we speak with local authors about the citys history starting with the link to booker t. Washington. In 20 minutes the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and in 50 minutes the teacher strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington, the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america, at the time, had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen in West Virginia. What he observed in his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middle class that became his path, his career path from teske to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born south of corona, virginia, 225 miles from here. And those nine years he was a slave boy, he didnt have pants, he wore a slave boy shirt, shoes, across the top, he wanted very much to go to school and he wasnt able to do that. He left the farm in 1865 after the civil war end, there w